On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:26, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:32:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote:
> > > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that
> > > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon.
> > > >
> > > > david
> > >
> > > No! Emulating proprietry software is not the future for an open source
> > > operating system.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is until the Broderbunds and KnowledgeAdventures
> > and Adobes and Quarks and Intuits and Uleads and Macromedias and
> > Autodesks and FileMakers and all the other little and small s/w
> > houses start making native Linux s/w.
>
> That would solve the emulation problem but not the proprietry problem.
As in "proprietary, closed-source apps"?
Well, that depends on if you see them as a "problem", or something
that you prefer not to use.
I prefer not to use proprietary, closed-source apps, but, when
necessary, will pay for them, and use them, even on Debian.
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